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The news came a few weeks ago that Neil Armstrong had died. He is a personal hero and I mourn his loss, especially coming so soon after Sally Ride. I went into my computer and resurrected the slides from a presentation I did at the Western PA Montessori school, Neil and Buzz Go to the …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/09/19/neil-armstrong-bill-nye-and-the-war-on-math-and-physics/
I am sharing Alayna Frankenberry‘s recent post from SPARK, the Kids+Creativity Network. Visit http://www.sparkpgh.org/welcome/ to learn more about this collaborative network of people, projects, and organizations working at the intersection of Science, Technology, and the Arts to provide all children and youth with the best opportunity to learn and be creative. Pirating Music Can Ruin Your Life – Yes, Really by Alayna Frankenberry When twenty-year-old Joel Tenenbaum was …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/08/28/what-parents-need-to-tell-their-kids-about-pirating-music/
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By Dr. Ellen Cavanaugh in 21st century skills, Blog, Engineering, Gifted Education, Innovation, Leadership, Parenting, Purpose, STEM education, Vision
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August 19, 2012
USA Today calls Tony Wagner’s latest book “A road map for parents who want to sculpt their children into innovative thinkers.” I couldn’t agree more. Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World focuses on what we must do differently, as parents and educators, in a globalized and technologically altered world …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/08/19/creating-innovators-the-making-of-young-people-who-will-change-the-world/
Judge Gilliam – I disagree. The latest “viral” Faceook is a reprint of a 1959 published letter from Judge Philip B. Gilliam of Denver,Colorado. Parents (and grandparents) of teens and tweens are lauding it as sage advice that “Every teenager should have this framed and hung on their wall in their room.” A part of …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/08/15/lifting-a-teen-from-the-mud-of-self-absorbed-pity/
A friend wrote and asked last week: “My grandchild will turn 6 in September. Do you know of any game or book for her age to get the math and science query started? She starts Kindergarten late August.” (thanks Anna Mae!) Here are my ideas… Do you have others? 1) Books! So important. As an …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/08/07/libraries-the-start-of-math-and-science-queries/
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By Dr. Ellen Cavanaugh in 21st century skills, Blog, Critical Thinking, Digital Footprint, Engineering, FIRST Robotics, Gifted Education, Mathematics, Robotics, STEM education
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August 3, 2012
I just finished five fantastic mornings with some brilliant hardworking middle schoolers, CMU Robotics Academy Curriculum on Robotics Engineering, seven Mindstorm robots, and five robot challenges. Life is good. Thank you to CCBC and the Beaver County STEM for sponsoring and encouraging such a great week, but most of all thank you to the parents willing to …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/08/03/curiosity-for-curiosity/
A friend wrote and asked last week: “My grandchild will turn 6 in September. Do you know of any game or book for her age to get the math and science query started? She starts Kindergarten late August.” Here are my ideas… Do you have others? 1) Books! So important. As an author, I appreciate …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/08/01/books-that-promote-stem-learning/
I enjoyed an incredible lunch Monday sponsored by The Sprout Fund with Nikki Navta of Zulama and Todd Keruskin of Elizabeth Forward School District at spoke at a lunch & learn at Sprout offices today about their experience at the Games for Change Festival earlier this summer. Keynotes and presentations from the festival are online. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/07/25/games-for-change-2012/
I just finished reading Switch by Chip and Dan Heath from the perspective of a person and parent trying to understand how to motivate myself and my child to action. It was a great complement to Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow reviewed last month. The Heath’s metaphor for what Kahneman called System One and System …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/07/13/switch/
Preparing our kids for the 21st century involves exciting them about STEM education and making sure they are literate in science, technology, engineering and math. Many are asking that we put an “A” for the Arts into STEM education, making STEAM education the focus of 21st century learning. That begs the question – does that …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/07/05/musicstem-careers/
